In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Jealousy Quotes

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once...

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once...

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes...

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of...

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of...

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable,...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable,...

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient...

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient...